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Poor reviews of White House transcend race

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I thought about how I could respond to Leonard Pitts Jr.’s question about the treatment of the
president, but in so doing, I decided that he was asking the wrong question (“If this treatment
isn't race-influenced, then what is?” op-ed column, Sunday).

I spent time reviewing who is responsible for bringing up race in any discussion of President
Barack Obama’s or Attorney General Eric Holder’s or the administration’s policies, and it seems to
me that it is always the individuals themselves or their supporters or those among the media who
have always supported any policy regardless of how negative.

Let me ask Pitts to explain some of the statements made by this president that have been
questioned by the public but by too few among the media.

The president said he would have the most transparent administration in history. But, for
whatever reason, his administration is withholding information requested over and over by Congress
regarding the Benghazi attack, the Fast and Furious gun-running fiasco and other issues too
numerous to list here.

Why are there no answers forthcoming from this administration? Is asking those questions a
racist response?

And what happened to the $800 billion that was devoted to those "shovel-ready jobs" that never
appeared and that Obama made jokes about? Does Pitts think jokes are an adequate response to those
questions?

“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Was questioning that statement racist?

“I am not spying on American citizens.” Really?

“I knew nothing about the IRS targeting conservative groups.”

“We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and the auto firms.”

“I will restore trust in government.”

Wow!

How quick we are to forget how people vilified Presidents George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush,
Richard Nixon (“I am not a crook”), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton (“I did not have sexual relations
with that woman”) and Jimmy Carter.

The reality is that there probably has never been a president whose decisions were not
questioned and who avoided criticism and vilification.

Get a grip. Find something important to write about. This is just silly rhetoric.